>>109180739>>109180689It's not immediately obvious to non-Americans who the good guys are. Sorry.
I'm also not going to pretend for a second that these guys are even gonna LET you be apolitical, or that it's weird for a gaming streamer to comment on a gaming update. If Valorant starts doing VALORANT: BROUGHT TO YOU BY BLACK LIVES MATTER or Marvel Rivals does a "MARVEL RIVALS: NELSON MANDELA WAS MORALLY UNAMBIGUOUS" update, and you notice it, that's not YOU bringing up politics. And no, to anybody who isn't concurrently American, left-leaning, untraveled, uneducated, and completely solipsistic, those aren't even particularly ridiculous parodies of what this is.
You know what this is? This is you never realizing that the Pledge of Allegiance isn't a completely normal default thing for people to do every day and being shocked that a foreigner isn't immediately and a priori willing to partcipate in it. That's your mentality when you think that everyone on this planet has (or *should* have, or they're BAD) the same opinions that you arrived at after 12 years of American schooling.
America is going to have more election years, you know. They're going to reach that boiling point like they do every 4 years where you're either with the party or against it. And it's gonna bleed into media you tried to consume apolitically, and you're going to be left with the ultimatum of "Well, if you DON'T take a side you're ONE OF THEM!"
You know you have talents on that roster who DEFINITELY voted the wrong way, right? I won't even say who or how I inferred that. But the level of solipsistic ego and conceit you have to be operating off of to think that "there's what I think, and then there's racism" is genuine mental illness in a clinical sense, and it's on display here BRAZENLY in the dialogue surrounding this.
Look. Phase Unity. Nobody jumps ship. Not over this. And this cannot be a source of continued visibility through the Streisand effect, nor should it be a wedge between any talents.
But I'm not going to pretend Jelly was in the wrong here. This is absurd.
